Israeli leaders say the nation will respond to Iran’s weekend attack, but what that response will entail remains unclear. “I can see a number of scenarios in which this does escalate to a regional and potentially even a global conflict,” says a former member of the National Security Council, Robert Greenway, adding, “I can see fewer ways in which w…

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Israel says it must respond to Iran’s attack. Former President Donald Trump’s criminal case in New York City begins. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas missed oral argument at the court and no explanation was given. The FBI opens a criminal investigation into the collapse of Baltimore’s…

Among all the legal charges facing former President Donald Trump, the criminal case out of New York City that begins Monday “is the most bogus,” according to legal expert Hans von Spakovsky. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged Trump in 2023 with 34 counts of falsifying business records supposedly to cover up “hush money” payments to por…

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The biggest news out of D.C. today was the House vote to renew the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Conservative legal advocate and co-chairman of the Federalist Society Leonard Leo refuses to comply with a Senate subpoena. The White House announces another $7.4 billion in loan forgi…

Garret O'Boyle and Stephen Friend dedicated years of their lives to serving their country in the FBI. But when they began to question some of the decisions being made within the bureau, they were suspended. After joining the FBI, O'Boyle says he “immediately saw that other agents [and] supervisors didn't have a solid grasp of people's civil rights.…

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: President Joe Biden says he may take executive action on the southern border. O.J. Simpson dies of prostate cancer. The Anti-Defamation League has gives Harvard and 12 other colleges failing grades for the policies on antisemitism. Investigative journalist Catherine Herridge testified befo…

The list of alleged instances of a weaponized federal government is getting longer, Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., says. “The problem of the federal government being weaponized against the American people's fundamental constitutional rights is pervasive and it seems, although I think we've done some things good to uncover and deter it, it is a constant p…

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: A new study confirms that most children showing sudden onset gender dysphoria are actually suffering from other mental health conditions. Idaho has a new law that prevents teachers and college professors from “knowingly and intentionally” addressing a minor by a name or pronoun that doesn’…

Two months ago, the House voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Next week, the Senate will receive the two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas, but Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is expected to dismiss the charges just as quickly as he receives them. “Schumer is going to table it,” Sen. Roger Marshall,…

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: ​​The House has delayed the delivery of the two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The Arizona Supreme Court issues a ruling upholding a ​​1864 abortion law A Daily Signal investigation has found that drivers of two-wheeled motorized vehicles ar…

The pro-life community can be the answer for thousands of children in need of loving foster parents or adoptive families, according to Prestonwood Baptist Church Associate Pastor Jeremiah Johnston. “We have 400,000 children in foster care nationally,” Johnston says, adding that “about 100,000 of those 400,000 are available for adoption and just wai…

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Former President Donald Trump clarifies his view on abortion. The Vatican declares transgender surgery and surrogacy to be grave violations of human dignity. President Joe Biden announces a new student loan forgiveness plan. During a protest in Dearborn, Michigan on Friday, people were hea…

Doctors across the country have seemingly thrown caution to the wind, prescribing experimental drugs to block puberty and to chemically alter young people's bodies in the name of a nebulous gender identity, but rising rates for medical malpractice insurance may cause them to think twice. "If the Hippocratic oath, if basic high school ninth grade bi…

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Calls for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step down are increasing The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports big job gains in March, but there is more to the story. The Israeli military says it has fired two officers over the drone strike in Gaza that killed seven aid workers. The No…

The places where they were raised and to which they traveled formed the Founding Fathers’ geographic orientation, which influenced their view of the nation and what the country could become, according to Michael Barone. While George Washington had “a map that goes north by northwest,” Thomas Jefferson “saw the country from [the] perspective of the …

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, agenda, has become a means to power at Boeing, according to one Boeing insider who spoke with Christopher Rufo. An effort backed by former President Donald Trump to rework Nebraska’s electoral votes fails. A prisoner in Utah who is male but ide…

There is a rare bipartisan agreement in Washington D.C. around the social media app TikTok. The app’s parent company, ByteDance, is headquartered in Beijing and is subject to Chinese law that requires companies to make their users’ data available to the Chinese Communist Party. In March, the House passed a bill in a 352-65 vote, with the help of 19…

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: A professional development conference heavily used the book, “Gender Queer’ to instruct teachers. China deployed planes and warships around Taiwan after Chinese leader Xi Jinping speaks to Biden. The Biden administration canceled plans to restock strategic petroleum reserve. UT Austin fire…

Wind, solar, and electric vehicles aren't the clean energy accomplishments that many claim, climatologist David Legates says. “The lithium, the atrium, all of the rare earth minerals that are necessary for the batteries, that are necessary for the solar panels, that are necessary for the wind turbines … are called rare earths,” Legates explains on …

Our colleague Fred Lucas reports that newly released records offer a glimpse of how federal public health officials reacted when questioned by Congress about an illegal, China-tied biolab in California. https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/04/01/how-cdc-handled-congress-probe-of-china-tied-lab-in-california/ Democratic Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek signed leg…

Tim Murtaugh became a familiar face to many Americans as President Donald Trump’s communications director for his 2020 reelection campaign. As one of Trump’s most visible spokesmen, Murtaugh had a front-row seat to the most-watched campaign in history. But just a mere four years earlier, Murtaugh found himself in a much different spot. After strugg…

After spending years serving the needs of the poor and homeless through nonprofit ministry, James Whitford says he learned that “it's good for nonprofits … to stay away from government funding.” Whitford, the co-founder and CEO of True Charity, a national initiative to reform charity work, started serving the poor through a ministry called Watered …

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Description: The House of Representatives is moving ahead with the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. A judge in Fulton County Georgia heard arguments today for the case involving former President Donald Trump’s alleged election interference in th…

On today’s edition of “The Daily Signal Podcast,” Virginia Allen and Simon Hankinson, senior research fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, discuss their recent trip to the southern border in San Diego County and what they learned from their ride-along with retired Border Patrol agent Mike Syzdek. (The Daily Si…

Description: As recovery efforts continue and questions remain following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday morning, a truck has been recovered from the Patapsco River. A special report released by The Heritage Foundation on Wednesday lays out how U.S. national security could be impacted should China take over t…

How could America shift so babies were more welcomed, less dreaded? Tim Carney, author of the new book “Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be,” has a few ideas. He’d like to see corporations offer parents their child’s birthday off every year. He wants parents to not work so hard at parenting—and to ne…

The Daily Signal’s Mary Margaret Olohan reports the United States Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments today in a case dealing with the Food and Drug Administration’s removal of safeguards on chemical abortion drugs. Recovery efforts are underway after the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, collapsed early Tuesday morning. Our c…

The Islamic extremist group ISIS took responsibility for a terrorist attack in Russia on Friday that left nearly 140 people dead. The deadly incident is one the United States should take “extremely seriously,” according to national security expert Robert Greenway. The deadly attack confirms that “the level of threat to the United States from terror…

Appeals court reduces former President Donald Trump’s bond to $175 million Earlier today, the United Nations Security Council voted and adopted “a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the immediate, unconditional release of all hostages,” according to the UN’s X page. The US abstained from the vote Democratic New York Rep. Alexan…

Why do some women choose to have large families? As the American birth rate declines, academic Catherine Ruth Pakaluk decided to look at the 5% of American women who are outliers, and who have five or more children. With a colleague, she interviewed 55 of those women, and shares their reasons and experiences in her new book, "Hannah's Children: The…

By a vote of 286-134 over conservatives’ objections, the House passed a $1.2 trillion spending package late Friday morning avoiding a partial government shutdown. Will House Speaker Mike Johnson be ousted from his position? Former President Donald Trump may soon be a whole lot richer – roughly $3 billion richer. Axios reports that Russia and China …

The threat of terrorism first touched Arlene Foster’s life when she was just a child. Her father was serving as a police officer in the United Kingdom when he was shot in his own home by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in 1979. The Provisional Irish Republican Army group was seeking to end British rule in Northern Ireland. The U.K. designated…

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: As the clock ticks closer to a potential government shutdown, lawmakers in Washington, DC have released a spending package valued at $1.2 trillion. Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin says he isn’t going to support President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees if they don’t receive support…

When veteran pollster Scott Rasmussen surveyed a group of Americans he calls the elite 1% earlier this year, he discovered a startling number who say it's OK to win an election by cheating. The elite 1%—individuals who make over $150,000 a year, live in densely populated areas, and have postgraduate degrees—are overwhelmingly liberal. They give Pre…

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: · A New York nonprofit dedicated to helping illegal immigrants was caught on video illegally distributing residency documents. · A Court shuts down Texas’ immigration law. · Bobolinski speaks at Hunter Biden hearing. · A Georgia judge allows Trump to appeal in DA Fani Willis case. Relevant…

This is the third in a three-part series on the movement for religious freedom in the U.S. legal system today. Check out the first part about how Christians who refuse to take a COVID-19 vaccine face "medical death row" hereand the second part about the "rise of global censorship" here. Mike Farris, general counsel with the National Religious Broad…

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: President Joe Biden has evacuated 11 embassies, a presidential record. The father of nursing student Laken Riley speaks out. Trump may be forced to sell properties to pay legal fees. Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro surrenders to authorities. Relevant Links Listen to other podcasts from …

Today's show is the second in a three-part series on the movement for religious freedom in the U.S. legal system today. Check out the first part about how Christians who refuse to take a COVID-19 vaccine face “medical death row” here. Ryan Bangert, senior vice president at the religious freedom law firm Alliance Defending Freedom, breaks down a tro…

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Did the Biden administration violate the first amendment? That is and was the question before the Supreme Court today in a major free speech case known as Murthy v. Missouri. Former President Donald Trump has been unsuccessful in securing the hundreds of millions of dollars he needs to pos…

This is the first in a three-part series on the movement for religious freedom in the U.S. legal system today. Stay tuned for the next two installments. NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute, represents Americans in religious freedom cases who have been turned away from hospitals because they refuse to take a vacci…

Fulton County Superior Court Trial Judge Scott McAfee made a decision earlier today about the Georgia election interference case involving former president Donald Trump. Vice President Kamala Harris’s visit to a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Minnesota. https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/14/kamala-harris-makes-celebratory-visit-planned-pare…

China knows that a weakened American society will mean an easier path for China to triumph on the international stage. In his explosive new book "Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans," Peter Schweizer chronicles China's surprising ties to the Ferguson protests and the 2020 riots. "Blood Money" also exposes how …

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: England’s National Health Service has declared that there’s not enough evidence of “safety and clinical effectiveness” for children and young people to be given puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria. https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/13/england-banning-puberty-blockers-kids-will-sav…

For nearly a decade, the House Freedom Caucus has disrupted the way business is done in Congress. Now, that same model is spreading to state capitals across America. State Freedom Caucus Network President Andy Roth is no stranger to Washington’s policy fights after spending years with the Club for Growth. A few years ago, he decided it was time to …

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to pass bipartisan legislation on the Chinese-owed app TikTok. Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, will not appear before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee next week for a hearing titled "Influence Peddling: Examining Joe Biden’…

TikTok might soon be facing a choice: Divest from its Chinese Communist Party-controlled parent company, or cease to operate in the U.S. “This is not about the content that is being posted on TikTok,” Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, says. “It's about the conduct of the company that controls TikTok, that makes the decisions, that has a narrative that …

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Special counsel Robert Hur testified before the House Judiciary Committee today about his report on President Joe Biden’s classified documents. https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/12/biden-gave-not-credible-response-in-classified-documents-probe-hur-testifies/ Supreme Court Justice Samuel …

In 2007, Todd Starnes was working at Fox News and covering then-Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. “I just felt like that was going to be the historic campaign, and it turned out to be,” says Starnes, a bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio host. The political climate facing America right now is in part due to the “residual aft…

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The House of Representatives is expected to vote Wednesday on bipartisan legislation relating to the Chinese-owned app TikTok. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that his forces would move forward with invading Rafah. Pope Francis is facing backlash after suggesting U…